Blonde Roots Paperback - 2010
by Evaristo, Bernardine
- Used
A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade,"Blond Roots" reverses and reexamines notions of savagery and civilization asit follows a young woman's journey to freedom.
Description
Details
- Title Blonde Roots
- Author Evaristo, Bernardine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date 2010-01-05
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 10106313-6
- ISBN 9781594484346 / 1594484341
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.38 x 0.74 in (19.76 x 13.67 x 1.88 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Satire, Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the ways that people justified their inhuman behavior? How would it inform our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers today? We see this tragicomic world turned upside down through the eyes of Doris, an Englishwoman enslaved and taken to the New World, movingly recounting experiences of tremendous hardship and the dreams of the people she has left behind, all while journeying toward an escape into freedom.
A poignant and dramatic story grounded in provocative ideas, Blonde Roots is a genuinely original, profoundly imaginative novel.
